#70 - Andrew Kolvet
The Eric Metaxas Show
Metaxas Media
4.7 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Today on The Eric Metaxas Show, Eric talks with Andrew Kolvet about Trump’s decision to strike Iran, why he says deterrence matters, and the claims circulating about Iran dragging out conflict while pursuing dirty bomb options and hypersonic missile help. They discuss what success would look like, why regime change talk gets complicated fast, and how to think clearly when pundits are guessing.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, the folks, welcome back. |
| 0:01.5 | I'm very excited to have as my guest right now, a dear friend, Andrew Colvette. |
| 0:10.1 | You know him from TPSA, executive producer of the Charlie Kirk show. |
| 0:20.2 | Andrew, my friend, welcome back. |
| 0:22.8 | Hey, thanks for having me, Eric. It's great to be here. We're living in crazy times, |
| 0:26.8 | but what I just said to my audience is that President Trump has earned my trust. So whatever he does, |
| 0:36.6 | my first instinct is to trust him, even if I have questions. And I feel |
| 0:41.1 | like people are way too skittish. It's like second guessing has become like the national pastime |
| 0:48.1 | where people are like, well, what about this? What about this? What about this? And my answer is like, |
| 0:52.6 | what about you humble yourself a little bit and |
| 0:55.8 | understand that for sure the president has information you don't. So unless you have something |
| 1:01.7 | substantive to say, a lot of the criticism is it's initially just easy sniping. And that bothers |
| 1:10.0 | me because, you know, this is very serious. |
| 1:13.0 | Yeah, I'm completely on board with exactly what you just said. |
| 1:16.9 | Listen, I did this multiple times with Charlie wrestling through, you know, |
| 1:23.5 | kind of the buildup to kinetic strikes like we saw over the weekend in Iran and understanding |
| 1:29.4 | that there are things that we simply don't know. There are strategic urgencies on the ground that we |
| 1:34.4 | sometimes don't know. Of course, privately, we are lobbying for peace. But we also have to understand, |
| 1:40.7 | I made a bunch of calls around Eric on Saturday before we did our live stream |
| 1:44.6 | reacting to the breaking news. And I heard it from multiple people that there was concerns that |
| 1:52.1 | even though the Ford O attacks had been, Operation Midnight Hammer last summer had been successful, |
| 1:58.1 | that Iran was basically trying to drag this out and that they were |
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